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To all whom itmay concern wBe it known that I, THOMAS a citizen of the United Statearesiding at Oklahoma, in the county of Oklahoma and State 'of Oklahoma, have invente da-new and an invisible or seamless and durable patch 7 covering a .holezorrent that has been worn or torn in cloth. The'fispot ball 'on. a pool-table soon wears (within a very few weeks onamuch-used table) a hole'in the cloth; anda mis-cue, in playing pool or billiai ds,is,liable to tear the cloth, requiring the table, to prevent unevennesses in itssurface and unsightline'ss in 'its appearance, to be recovered at COIlSldBIELblG" expense.

To employ myimprovement in patching a hole in the clothof a pool or billiard table,

' I prepare the hole, if necessary to true it, by

shearing or cutting off the frayed edges to straighten them; Thereupon a piece, of suitable shape and dimensions, of adhesive fabric, which may be the material known as mending-tissue with tliiirpaper, or the like, covering and adhering to one surface, or a piece of very thin fabriccoated with cement on one surface,isinserted underneath the edges about the hole, with itscement surface against the cloth; Heat and pressure are then applied over the covered hole, as through the medium 'of a heated sad-iron, to effect thorough adhesion, upon cooling,of the underlay or base to the cloth and hold the edges in place. This forms a shallow pocket for the filling to form the patch. Into this pocket a cementitious liquid or semi-liquid compound is introduced upon the base. The preferred compound for the purpose is rubber cement (about 2 parts) and carbon bi-sulfid (about 1 part) with enough gasolene cement and preventsits spreading 'overthe I Specificationof Letters Patent to dissolve the rubber. The carbon bi-sulfid ingredient thins the rnnrnois.

edges of the hole cementltious compoundthus introduced into the pocket,.fibers of cloth of the same color and preferably of the same'kind ofcloth as that being patched, and with the, fibersby UNI ED 'PATENT FFIC CHICAGO,

eing patched. Uponithe I 7 preference ground upinto a fineconditionp are filled into the pocket, as through the medrum of an adequately stiff brush. These fibers are tamped to thoroughly press them intootheicompound, and the whole is then rolled, by means of a suitable roller, whereupon heat and pressure, (thro'ugh the preferred medium of the aforesaidironv) are applied to the patchtoset the material forming K it. Up'oncooling, the patch is perfected. I It is seamless and invisible, because in the use of the table the contrastlin freshness of color,

remaining surface of the cloth -soon disappears. '1, i 7 i m Itis preferable, inmaking 'thepatch, in stead of filling into "the pocket the entire amount of, the compoundyat once, and introducing thereon all-ofgthetloth fibers required, to use only a portion of that quantity between the newly-laid cloth fibers and the U of the compound, atfirst, to introduce thereon a portion er the cloth fiber, and then 'tampit down; and to repeat these successive operations as often as required to fill the pocket before applying the heat and pressure tofix and smoothen the patch and render itflush with the surface of the cloth about the hole.

I realize that considerable variation is possible in the details thus specifically described, and I do not intend by thus setting forth a single, specific or preferred manner of practisingan embodiment of "my invention to be limited thereto; being in the appendedclaims to claim promy intention 7 tectionlupon all the novelty there may be in my inventionas broadly as the state of the 7 art will "permit. p

hat I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. The method of patching clothwhich consists'in placing a layer of moisture resisting material across the hole to be patched forming a base beneath saidhole, then in serting into the pocket thus formed a cementitious compound, then adding finely groundcloth fibers similar in nature to the material-to be patched until the hole is filled with, the cementitious fibrous mass, and then subjecting the mixture of oementitious com pound and fibers to heat and pressure to compact and fix it and render the mass flush with the cloth surface, whereby a new piece of cloth is formed in said pocket, substantially as described.

2. The method of patching cloth which consists in placing alayer vof moisture re-.

sisting material across the hole to be patched forming a base beneath the hole, then inserting into the pocket thus formed a ceme entitious compound containing rubber," then adding finely hole is filled mass, then subjecting the filling to heat and pressure to compact and fixit and render the 1 surface, whereby a new piece of cloth is formed in said pocket,

patch flush with the cloth substantially as described.

3. The method of patching cloth which a layer of moisture proof I consists in placing material across the hole to constitute a base cementitions compound and C'o'pies 'of this patent inay be "obtained for ground cloth fib rs until the? with a cementitious fibrous then in'troducing'into the cementitious coinfinely ground cleth 1 said filling to render'it flush 4. The method of patching cloth which consists in fixing a piece of material to the cloth to be patched in position to extend across the hole and 'form a pocket, then introducing a filling of cementitious compound into the pocket, then introducing finely ground fibers of a cloth of a color to match that of the patched cloth until the pocket is filled with a cementitious fibrous substance, then compacting and forming with an outer surface of the cloth, whereby a-"new piece of cloth is formedin saidpocket, substantially as described.

5. The method billiard, pool or other table consisting in fixing a piece of material to the cloth to be patched inposition to extend across the hole and form a pocket, then introducing into said pocket a c'ementitious composition formed of a compound of rubber, cement, carbon bi-sulfid, and gasolene, then adding finely ground fibers of a cloth of a color to match that of the patched cloth until the pocket is filled with a cementitious fibrous substance, then compacting and forming said filling to render it flush with a surface of'the cloth, whereby a new piece of cloth is formed in said pocket, substantially as described. V

THOMAS E. SPERRY. In presence of' NELLIE DEARBORN, OTTILIE O.;'.Avisus.

five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner 'ofPatents, WshingtomDfi.

of patching the cloth of a 

